Can anyone verify or dispute what I have just been
told by a photography curator: that the Russians who
liberated Auschwitz dressed local Poles in prison
uniforms in order to take photos of their liberation of
the camp, since their were no prisoners walking around?
Claire Kahane Dept. of EnglishSUNY-BuffaloBuffalo, NY 14260tel. 716-645-2575, x1034 Department fax: 716-645-5980

I CAN'T either support nor deny this statement. But I
remember being liberated in Auschwitz/Birkenau that as a
child (15 years old) I was taken by a Soviet military
firstaid-man to the barbed wire for film
documentation.

I believe to recognize this event, being supported by
the soldier in white and covered with blanket. An olderly
man from my hometown Jenoe W. was also filmed by
transporting death, or sicks. The films were taken by the
film operators of the Soviet Army by N. Bykow, K.
Katub-Zade, A. Pawlow and A. Woroncow, later
photographs were taken by Henryk Makerowicz, a
soldier of the Polish Army in the late days of January
1945.

I heard also rumours that some of the pictures of the
liberation were taken at a later time, one of the
pictures was taken in the main camp Auschwitz were as
well my son and I found independently many similarities
with a boy standing at the barbed wire, but this picture
must have been taken many weeks after the liberation it
is still exhibited in one of the Blocks (6?) in the main
camp.